lightman

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English

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Etymology

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From light (noun) +‎ -man.

Noun

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lightman (plural lightmen)

  1. A man who carries or takes care of a light.
    • c. 1680s?, Tom Brown, The Practical Quaker; or, the New-Lights

      The Stars might go to sleep a-nights,
      And leave their work to these new-Light
      The Midwife Moon might mind her Calling ,
      And noisy Lightman leave his Bawling

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